Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Are local 4B models usable on smartphone?</p> <p>Just did a vibe check on a Pixel Pro 10, Gemma 4B vs Qwen 3.5 4B, starting from handheld photos

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s41egi/rfdetr_nano_and_yolo26_doing_ondevice_object/"> <img alt="RF-DETR Nano and YOLO26 doing on-device

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>After burning way too much money on GPT-4 API calls, I finally went all-in on local models with Ollama. The progress in 2026 is insane

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Just putting together a quick list of the new <strong>open-source physical AI / robotics models</strong> from <strong>NVIDIA GTC

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